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Law and Philosophy in China and Elsewhere

Author : Ronald J. Allen

Published in: Facts and Evidence

Publisher: Springer Singapore

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This is my twenty-first visit to China to attend conferences, do lectures or teach classes. Since my first invitation to visit China fifteen years ago, I have always been deeply honored to be invited whether to address a national conference such as this or do lectures to students and faculties at the approximately 30 universities that I have been privileged to visit.

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Peerenboom (2002, pp. 43–49).

Ronald J. Allen, “The Complicated and Risky Promise of Rule of Law in China”, keynote address, International High-End Forum on Rule of Law and Reform: Public Law and Modernization of Governance, Hangzhou, 2015.

Quine (1969, pp. 69–90).

See, e.g., Hart (1961).

An excellent discussion for the intelligent lay person by a distinguished philosopher, John D. Norton, can be found at: http://www.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/teaching/HPS_0410/chapters/significance_GR_geometry/significance_GR_geometry.html#Kantian.

Allen and Leiter (2001).

The earliest recognition of this point to my knowledge is Benedict D. Spinoza, Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect, 1677, par. 17: “By hearsay alone I know the date of my birth, who my parents were, and things of that sort, which I have never doubted.”.

Allen (1992, 2016).

Allen (2013).

This articulation makes immediately clear why expert testimony is a problem. Allen and Miller (1993).

Earman (1992).

Allen (1986).

Allen and Pardo (2008).

Allen and Stein (2013).

Laudan (2006).

Ronald J. Allen, Closing Remarks, 4th International Conference on Evidence Law and Forensic Science (Beijing, China; July 20–21, 2013). I elaborated on this theme in Ronald J. Allen, “The Perils of Comparative Law Scholarship Research”, published in Spanish as Los Peligros De Investigacion En Derecho Comparado, in Jordi Ferrer Beltran and Carmen Vazquez (eds.), Debatiendo con Taruffo, Marcial Pons, 2016, p. 21.

Zuckerman (1999).

A blatant example of this is the nonsense written concerning the asserted superiority of the German civil justice system, prior to the changes made to it that began to approximate adversarial systems. See Allen et al. (1988), Allen (1988).

Many of the points in this address are discussed in the various essays in Allen (2014).

Allen, Ronald J. 1986. A Reconceptualization of Civil Trials. Boston University Law Review 66: 401–437. Reprinted in Peter Tillers and Eric D. Green (eds.). 1988. Probability and Inference in the Law of Evidence, 21–60. Kluwer Academic Press.

Allen, Ronald J. 1988. Idealization and Caricature in Comparative Law Scholarship. Northwestern Law Review 82: 785–807.

Allen, Ronald J. 1992. The Hearsay Rule as a Rule of Admission. Minnesota Law Review 76: 797–812.

Allen, Ronald J. 2013. Taming Complexity: Rationality, the Law of Evidence, and the Nature of the Legal System. Law, Probability & Risk 12: 99–113. Reprinted in Maksymilian Del Mar and Burkhard Schafer. 2014. Legal Theory and Natural Sciences.

Allen, Ronald J. 2014. Professor Allen on Evidence, vol. I. Beijing: Renmin University Press.

Allen, Ronald J. 2016. The Hearsay Rule as a Rule of Admission Revisited. Fordham Law Review 84: 1395.

Allen, Ronald J., and Alex Stein. 2013. Evidence, Probability, and the Burden of Proof. Arizona Law Review 55: 557.

Allen, Ronald J., and Brian Leiter. 2001. Naturalized Epistemology and the Law of Evidence. Virginia Law Review 87: 1491–1550.

Allen, Ronald J., and Joe S. Miller. 1993. The Common Law Theory of Experts: Deference or Education? Northwestern Law Review 87: 1131–1147. Reprinted in J.F. Nijboer, C.R. Callen, and N. Kwak (eds.). 1993. Forensic Expertise and the Law of Evidence.

Allen, Ronald J., and Michael Pardo. 2008. Juridical Proof and the Best Explanation. Law & Philosophy 27: 223–268. Reprinted in Spanish 27 Derechoy Filosofía, No. 3 (2008), 223–268.

Allen, Ronald J., Stefan Koch, Kurt Reichenberg, and D. Toby Rosen. 1988. The German Advantage in Civil Procedure: A Plea for Fewer Generalities and Greater Detail in Comparative Law Scholarship. Northwestern Law Review 82: 705–762.

Hart, H. L. A. 1961. The Concept of Law. Clarendon Press.

Earman, John. 1992. Bayes or Bust? Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

Laudan, Larry. 2006. Truth, Error, and Criminal Law: An Essay in Legal Epistemology.

Peerenboom, Randall. 2002. China’s Long March Toward Rule of Law, 43–49. Cambridge University Press.

Quine, W. V. O. 1969. Epistemology Naturalized? In Ontological Relativity and Other Essays, 69–90. Columbia University Press.

Zuckerman, Adrian A. S. 1999. Civil Justice in Crisis: Comparative Perspectives of Civil Procedure.

Title: Law and Philosophy in China and Elsewhere
Author: Ronald J. Allen
Publisher: Springer Singapore
Book: Facts and Evidence
Print ISBN: 978-981-15-9638-4

Electronic ISBN: 978-981-15-9639-1

Copyright Year: 2021
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-9639-1_1